Task Manager & Conky memory report differs alot.

[Godwin]

Hopefully this is the right section to ask about this?

Got a rather old computer, only 752MB RAM (reported). So when Conky shows that I use about all of it. Task Manager shows perhaps 50% RAM usage. Which one should I trust?

This is the memory part from conky-script.

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$font${color DimGray}MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar

My guts tells me to trust the task manager, but why does conky exaggerate then?

I'm on Arch Linux LXDE, if it matters.

[rokytnji]

Hmmm. I use

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${color}Fan: ${color}${hwmon fan 1}
${color}Temp: ${color} ${hwmon temp 1}C
${color}Ram : ${color}$mem${color}/${color}$memmax ${color}- ${color}$memperc%

on this computer with AntiX. Listening to streaming radio in Gogglesmm and running Seamonkeys latest while posting I show about 250MB being used in conky on 900MB of ram.

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$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        901112     755668     145444          0     117168     367552
-/+ buffers/cache:     270948     630164
Swap:      2120576          0    2120576

My conky version is

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$ apt-cache policy conky
conky:
  Installed: 1.8.1-5
  Candidate: 1.8.1-5
  Version table:

Though.

[fauzimh]

Hi, I also encounter similar situation here.
Conky shows that im already using 1.8GB RAM, while Task Manager shows im only using 470MB. That is 1.3GB difference.
Which one to be trusted?
Anyone can shed some light here?

[fauzimh]

I have found the issue.
apparently, you need to set: no_buffers yes in your .conkyrc